I really hope that you, dear readers, are as alarmed as me that we are deep into February 2016. What’s that? It’s March? Bloody hell. Well that explains why it’s still light during the drive home from work already. My perennial quest Sophia sluggishness means I’m nowhere near keeping up with the 2016 release schedule [...][Give in to your anger...]

"Regret. We all experience it in one way or another. Some feel it after a heavy night of drinking before a working day. Others after indulging amorous emotions with an ex's mother. Me? The regret I feel is for missing great music the first time around. It was in the process of skimming year end lists to uncover my omissions that I was directed towards Black Wisdom by Grey Heaven Fall." We also regret that whole White Wizzard thing.[Give in to your anger...]

"If we apply the maxim of “I didn't feel like drinking until I started drinking” to listening to metal bands you've never heard before, I firmly believe that this fertile ground is where plenty of our favourite records are born. When I first listened to Belgium's Predatoria in an effort to acclimatize myself to my temporary home's up-and-coming death metal bands, I had no idea that what they were selling was exactly what I was looking to buy but here we are." Can we start drinking now?[Give in to your anger...]

"Any fan of Gaza knows the drama. In early 2013, vocalist Jon Parkin became the target of a rape allegation that, though eventually settled out of court by both parties, ultimately led to the remainder of the Utah-based hardcore outfit cutting ties with Parkin and starting anew. The result was Cult Leader: essentially the same lineup, with bassist Anthony Lucero dropping the four-string to take over on vocals." Join the cult or refuse the Kool Aid?[Give in to your anger...]

"It's the new year! And that means new starts. What's going to be new with the Record(s) o' the Month in 2016? Well, pretty much nothing. I plan to be just as opinionated, stubborn, and unreliable as I can be. Because now I have Unimpeachable Scientific Proof™ that my choices are pretty much fucking representative of the choices of the entire staff at Angry Metal Guy. Yeah, sure, some people might not agree with me all the time, but in aggregate—which as we know from the rise of Big Data and the Technocratic Rule is the only data that matters—my opinion is still trend-setting and all-important. Put that in your pipe and smoke it I Give a 4.0 to Everything That Reeks of Nostalgia and Desperation Druhm. So my wimpy prog choices? Yeah, they're gonna keep coming. My not caring about the newest super true Demilich clone? Oh, it will continue. My total disinterest in anyone's opinion but my own? Yup, that's the whole point of this blog."[Give in to your anger...]

"Still, even in 2015, when a mysterious black metal band crafts a record that mimics an Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy, it’s bound to raise some eyebrows. Especially when the songs are sung in Russian and the band members are Polish." If that doesn't pique the curiosity, you're a person without curiosity to pique. [Give in to your anger...]

"VOLA are highly unusual in their approach to modern progressive metal. The most apt description I can define is prog-power by way of djent, offering the catchy melodies of Anubis Gate and Voyager but executed with the staccato, modern heaviness of a post-Meshuggah era." Some things just sell themselves.[Give in to your anger...]

"If you don't know who Refused are, or that they're (along with Born Against) Fucking Dead, you must be so young that you missed the phase in the early 2000s where every two-bit nü-metal act on the planet was citing their final record as a major influence (for the masochists among you here is a reminder of just how bad this era was). You young rapscallions are perfectly capable of using AltaVista yourselves so I'll spare you the history lesson; all you need for the moment is that the band split in 1998, and few ever expected them to return." But honestly, what old guy can pass up reliving their wasted youth? [Give in to your anger...]

"Yeah, I'm pretty peeved about that title, too. In a Car Bomb-esque display of eccentricism, the experimental metal group that Dr. Fisting calls "the loudest band I've ever heard in a club" have offered unto the world a palindromically-titled album that's a darling of search engine optimization but a demon for memorability." Kronos drops some scientific knowledge on all y'all. Is 1010II0101 more memorable than its title?[Give in to your anger...]

"Thirty years past its prime, Gravewürm's songwriting and musical delivery continues to leave a lot to be desired, and after twenty-five years of existence and ten full-lengths, I ask myself the same question before every Gravewürm release: does Gravewürm have anything new—anything at all—to offer in their newest output?" That's a really good question. [Give in to your anger...]